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Sep
28

Scotland eyes Europe's largest onshore wind farm

Siemens has agreed to supply Airtricity with turbines for a planned 350-megawatt onshore wind farm — possibly Europe’s largest — in
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Sep
28

Wanted: 20 low-carbon community pioneers

The UK government today launched a search for 20 communities that want to “be in the forefront of moving to
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Sep
28

Climate-threatened Maldives go underwater ... politically

The Maldives, an nation of islands and atolls that stretches across the Indian Ocean, is also the lowest-lying country in
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Sep
28

The next word in plastics: Bananas

What do the banana plant and the 1967 Dustin Hoffman classic, “The Graduate,” have in common? One word: plastics. After
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Sep
27

Climate Change Index for week ending 27 Sept. 2009

Launched last week, our weekly Climate Change Index tracks research findings and events directly attributable to global warming. Our aim
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Sep
25

Frequent fliers can donate award miles for carbon offsets

Frequent fliers with Lufthansa and SWISS now have the option of using their award miles to make voluntary carbon offset
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Sep
25

US 'woefully' underfunding climate-change health research

The US should be spending roughly $200 million on research into climate change’s impact on public health, but actually
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Sep
25

Space exploration could benefit from moon water

NASA’s discovery of water on the moon, announced this week, has major implications for the future of human space
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Sep
25

Film-maker swallows pill camera for live video performance

The concept of a miniaturised traveller taking a trip through the human body — long the subject of fiction, from the
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Sep
25

Jurdy: A new leaf

Jurdy holds out hope for low-carbon cars …